"Hehe, hasn't Lord Kamiya seen it yet?" Masara said.

"This is raw silk? Is it a good raw silk? Kamiya Sauze exclaimed. Hakata also had a lot of merchants smuggling goods with some wealthy families along the coast of the Ming Kingdom, so he was very familiar with the special silk of the Ming Kingdom, but he suddenly saw it in the hands of a powerful man who didn't seem to be powerful, and he couldn't believe it for a while. You must know that a daimyo like the Ouchi family, which is as powerful as the Ouchi family, can only have a large amount of raw silk of such quality after exploring and trading with the Ming Kingdom.

"Yes, I have 600 pounds of raw silk here," Masato said. Obviously, the other party didn't know about the fact that there was a fleet of Ming Kingdom ships docked in Hirado, and Masarashi didn't plan to tell him, because even if he did, he wouldn't be able to get close to the territory of the Hirado Matsuura family. The Hirado Matsuura clan would never allow others to come and share their interests at this time. Of course, when the transaction with Wang Zhi is completely controlled in the future, then he will support these merchants to go to Hirado, and the problem is a long time later.

"Your Highness, this..."Shenya Shaoce pointed to the raw silk in his hand and looked at Masahiro with expectant eyes.

"The family only has these raw silks at present, and they can't get it for the time being. These raw silk are provided by a Ming fleet, and now this fleet has returned to the Ming Kingdom" Zhengliang politely refused the other party's request to ask the exact source of the raw silk, what are you kidding, of course, it is better to be a middleman, and it is better to make a small profit for you, "If you plan to buy this batch of raw silk, I will sell it to you at a price of six yuan per catty." "If you sell these raw silks, you can get an income of 3,600 guan, and after adding the 3,000 guan extorted from the Huzi family and the remaining more than 200 copper coins in the warehouse, the Luo family now has more than 6,800 guan coins.

Shenwu Shaoce didn't answer immediately after hearing this, and after pondering for a while, he nodded and said, "It's good, just at this price, all the raw silk families want it." ”

After hearing the other party's final agreement, Zhengliang smiled slightly. According to the current market price of Dongsongpu, a pound of raw silk is indeed about 5 guan. However, if the raw silk is sold to the Kyoto area, it is estimated that it will rise to about 10 koku. With the ability of the Kamiya family, there is definitely a way to complete such a delivery, so it is already very cheap to sell it to the Kamiya family at a price of 6 per catty.

After the business of raw silk was negotiated, the two reconfirmed the details of the transaction, and finally Zhengliang used 4,500 guan to buy 150 adult cultivated cattle, and the remaining 2,300 guan will be used to buy grain, according to the price of 2.5 stone of autumn grain, it is expected to buy 6,500 stone of grain. In addition, the monthly snow salt income is also used to buy autumn grain, and Masara is confident that he will be able to store more than 20,000 koku of grain when winter comes.

The front foot had just sent away Shenwu Shaoce, and the back foot Togo Heiji followed into the military tent.

"How? Have you counted all the supplies? After confirming the details of the transaction with Wang Hai, Zhengliang asked Dongxiang Heiji to prepare the materials for the transaction, and at the same time counted the materials in the Luo family's warehouse. Since the material commissioner Kosuke was temporarily responsible for garrisoning Tanoo Castle to guard the Kamikura family, he had to let Togo Heiji do it for him.

"Your Highness, it is estimated that in the next two months, the construction of the territory and the support of the military will consume two thousand stone of food. After removing these 2,000 stones, plus the 500 stone grains obtained from the Huzi family and the 500 stone grains just delivered by the Kamiya family, there are still about 6,000 stone of territorial construction grain reserves and about 2,300 stone of military grain reserves in the warehouse", Togo Heiji opened the account book and reported, "The trading materials with the merchants of the Ming Kingdom have been prepared, and after removing this part of the trading materials, there are still 515 unallocated swords, 810 unallocated spears left in the warehouse, and the newly delivered 50 pairs are sufficient, In terms of coins, there are about 3,200 guan. ”

"Well, the newly delivered ones will be distributed as soon as possible," Masashi commanded. In addition to this batch of sufficiency, all the ashigaru of the Luo family are equipped with sufficiency: "Take the first batch of 100 catties of raw silk left by the merchants of the Ming Kingdom to the Shenwu family and take it away." ”…,

"Yes, Your Highness," Togo Heiji ordered, "the law of the newly occupied territory is being implemented, but the paper used for registration is almost exhausted, Your Highness, do you think you want the Kamiya family to help raise some money?" ”

What the? I've just solved the matter of plowing cattle, and now I have to deal with the problem of paper again? Masato suddenly felt powerless, "Isn't there still a lot of reserves in the warehouse?" Masarashi suddenly remembered that there were hundreds of bundles of paper in the warehouse.

"Your Highness, according to the territorial law, children who are newly occupied with the requirements of the territory are required to participate in the territorial academy, and these need to be papered," Togo Heiji reminded.

Forehead! I really forgot about it. In order to vigorously promote Simplified Chinese and Mandarin, Zhengliang selected some 13- and 14-year-old children from the children who had been learning Chinese with him for a period of time as "teachers" to teach in the newly occupied territory. Moreover, in order to increase the effect of learning, Masashi specially approved the use of paper for teaching, which will inevitably lead to a large consumption of paper. It seems that education in that era was very expensive, but the education in the territory could not be stopped, so I could only grit my teeth and persevere.

Why don't you make your own paper? Masarashi thought suddenly. Now the paper is not cheap, a bunch also costs hundreds of Wen, if the future is through the purchase to meet the use of the demand, it must be a big expenditure, anyway, as long as it can be used, their own paper can also fully meet the needs. The ancient papermaking technique is to make paper from bamboo, the steps seem to be to chop the bamboo and float the pond, cut the bamboo and tender bamboo, put it in the pond, cut and soak it for more than 100 days, and use natural microorganisms to decompose and wash off the green skin of the bamboo. The bamboo obtained from the above is put into the "wandering" bucket and steamed with lime for eight days and eight nights. Take out the bamboo treated above, put it into the stone mortar, and knock it with a stone mill until the bamboo is broken, which is like a mud surface. The broken bamboo material is poured into the water tank, and the bamboo curtain is used to swing the material in the water, and the bamboo material becomes a thin layer attached to the bamboo curtain, and the rest of the water flows down the groove from the four sides of the bamboo curtain. The curtain is pressed and then the curtain is repeated to make the wet paper fall on the board, that is, a piece of paper. In this way, the process of sprinkling and covering the curtain is repeated, so that thousands of sheets of wet paper are stacked one by one, and then a wooden board is added to squeeze out most of the water. Wet paper is lifted one by one and dried. The equipment for baking paper is to build an alley with adobe bricks, a fire is lit in the alley, and after the temperature of the adobe bricks rises, the wet paper is pasted and dried one by one. After drying, it is lifted to form paper.

Thinking of doing so, Masarashi immediately wrote down the method of making paper on a piece of paper, and then asked Togo Heiji to bring it and handed it to Shinsuke, who had returned to Nodaka-cho, and let Shinsuke be responsible for the specific test. Of course, Masara will not do the test himself, the process of making paper will take a while, but he certainly does not have so much time to study this, and now he is preparing to launch another surprise strategy.

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